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Extracts (Rabdosia) — Ponicidin (at low concentration without antiviral activities (0.2 μg/ml))
when combined with ACV or GCV, enhanced the cytotoxic levels in HSV-TK-expressing cells by
3 to 87-fold and 5 to 52-fold, respectively, compared with the nucleoside alone.RADISH (Raphanus sativus L.) +++Activities (Radish) — Antibacterial (1; WOI); Antioxidant (1; WOI); Antiseptic (2; KOM; PIP;
PH2); Antiviral (1; HH2; PH2); Aperient (f; EFS); Aperitif (1; DEP; EFS; PHR); Carminative (f;
DAA; KAB; WOI); Cholagogue (1; KAB; PHR); Choleretic (1; IHB; PH2); Depurative (f; EFS;
WOI); Diaphoretic (f; LMP); Digestive (1; IHB; LMP); Diuretic (f; IHB; WOI); Emmenagogue
(f; DEP; KAB); Expectorant (f; DAA; IHB); Gastrostimulant (2; KOM; PIP); Laxative (f; DEP;
IHB); Litholytic (f; DEP); Secretagogue (2; KOM; PIP); Secretolytic (1; PH2); Stimulant (f; EFS);
Stomachic (f; DAA; DEP; KAB); Vermifuge (f; KAB).
Indications (Radish) — Amenorrhea (f; KAB); Anorexia (2; DEP; EFS; PHR); Apoplexy (f; LMP);
Asthma (f; DAA); Bacteria (1; DAA; WOI); Biliary Dyskinesia (2; KOM; PIP); Bladder Stone (f;
DEP); Bronchosis (2; PHR; PH2); Bruise (f; DAA; LMP); Burn (f; LMP); Calculus (f; DEP); Cancer
(f; JLH); Cancer, abdomen (f; JLH); Cancer, breast (f; LMP); Cancer, colon (f; JLH); Cancer, liver
(f; JLH); Cancer, spleen (f; JLH); Cancer, stomach (f; JLH; LMP); Cardiopathy (f; KAB); Catarrh
(2; KOM; PIP; PH2); Cholecystosis (f; EFS; PH2; WOI); Cholera (f; KAB); Cold (2; PHR); Consti-
pation (f; DEP; IHB); Corn (f; JLH); Cough (2; HH2; LMP; PHR; PH2); Diarrhea (f; LMP; PH2);
Dropsy (f; DAA; LMP); Dysentery (f; LMP); Dyspepsia (2; KOM; LMP; PH2); Dysuria (f; DEP;
KAB; PH2); Edema (f; DAA); Enterosis (f; JLH; PH2); Escherichia (1; WOI); Fever (2; LMP; PHR);
Flu (1; IHB); Gallstone (f; HH2; PH2); Gas (1; DAA; KAB; PH2; WOI); Gastrosis (f; DEP);
Gonorrhea (f; DEP); Headache (f; DAA; PH2); Hemorrhoid (f; KAB; WOI); Hepatosis (f; JLH;
WOI); Hiccup (f; KAB); Induration (f; DEP); Infection (2; PHR); Inflammation (2; KAB; PHR);
Ischuria (f; DEP); Leprosy (f; KAB); Lumbago (f; DAA; LMP); Mastosis (f; LMP); Nausea (f; PH2);
Neuralgia (f; PH2); Oliguria (f; DAA); Ophthalmia (f; DAA); Pain (f; DEP; KAB; PH2); Paralysis
(f; KAB); Pertussis (f; EFS; PH2); Pharyngosis (2; PHR); Polyp (f; JLH); Rash (f; SKJ); Respirosis
(2; KOM; PIP; PH2); Rheumatism (f; DAA); Rhinosis (f; JLH); Ringworm (f; SKJ); Splenosis (f;
KAB; JLH); Staphylococcus (f; DAA); Stomatosis (2; PHR); Stone (f; DEP; PH2); Strangury (f;
DEP); Streptococcus (1; DAA; WOI); Syphilis (f; DEP; KAB); VD (f; DEP; KAB); Virus (1; HH2;
PH2); Wart (f; JLH); Water Retention (f; IHB; WOI); Wen (f; JLH); Worm (f; KAB).
Dosages (Radish) — Food farmacy in my book. 50–100 ml expressed juice (HH2; KOM; PIP);
1.3 kg radish yield 1 liter radish juice (PH2).
Contraindications, Interactions, and Side Effects (Radish) — Not covered (AHP). “Hazards
and/or side effects not known for proper therapeutic dosages” (PH2). Due to the cholagogic effect
of the drug, biliary colic could be triggered among patients with gallstones (PHR). Contraindicated
in cholelithiasis (KOM; PIP). No drug-drug interactions or side effects reported (KOM; PIP).
Extracts (Radish) — Perhaps anticipating the work on sulforaphane at Johns Hopkins, WOI (1969)
comments that radish seeds contain glycosidally bound oils containing allyl-, isopropyl-, and
methyl-isothiocyanates and sulphoraphene [sic] and 4-methylsulfinyl-3-butenyl-cyanide, the corre-
sponding nitrile of sulphoraphene and cleavage product of its glucoside. Sulphoraphene is antibac-
terial to Escherichia, Pneumococcus, Pyrococcus, and Streptococcus. It is blastokolic (inhibits
germination of seeds). Raphanin, from the aqueous seed extract, may possibly be identical to
sulphoraphene. Seeds contain broad spectrum machrolysin which is active against Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. On a few occasions, PH2 has described plants as secretolytic, which other Commission
E interpretations consider secretagogue. I suspect the PH2 is more likely the wrong party.